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Strategic Thinking Exercise – A SWOT Analysis to Push Thinking

BrainZooming

What are THREATS relative to: Emerging competitors not playing by the same rules we and other industry players do ? External forces beyond our influence that are redefining marketplace competitiveness? Better capturing the best, most attractive prospects that are not doing business with the brand right now ?

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Answering 3 Key Automotive Industry 4.0 Questions

Planview

No doubt about it, Automotive Industry 4.0 Technology-related issues that weren’t a concern just five or ten years ago are now top of mind as customer demands and a rapidly changing industry push automakers and OEMs in new directions. Innovation is synonymous with the auto industry. Auto Industry 4.0

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The Transformation of IP Technology

Anaqua

All companies, high-tech or not, need to constantly innovate and push themselves in order to maintain a competitive advantage in an age where product features and capabilities are no longer enough to differentiate a company and create lasting value. New Technologies.

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The Innovation Generation Has Arrived

Legacy Innovation Group

Once upon a time, in the heyday of the Industrial Age, a young marketing, design, or engineering student would graduate from college and go to work for a large corporation, slowly melding into the steady, rhythmic din of bureaucratically-managed, organizationally-structured execution work in product development.

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Immediate Regret: Why Did I Take This Job?

Michael Roberto

Here's an excerpt from Lublin's column: Technology industry veteran Puneet Goel says he wishes he had done greater due diligence a few years ago before taking charge of product management at a midsize tech company He never reached out to his immediate predecessor who no longer worked there. I just couldn’t be successful in that way.’’

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The Marketing Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

The more brand-focused questions are things a visual or industrial designer will particularly want to know, though the answers can prove useful to the whole team. It’s essential to see where the marketing team wants to take the product or the brand, especially if it involves a change in direction.

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Innovation’s New World Order

Innovation in Practice

How and where innovation is performed matters: As Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, author of classic texts on corporate strategy and the competitive advantage of nations, has noted, “Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”. Based in Florham Park, N.J., he is a principal with PwC US.

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